I'm Albert Mowler, and this is a special edition of the briefing.

It's a special edition of the briefing for the parents of teenage boys and young men,

not only parents, but the pastors and youth pastors and those who are directly concerned

with teenage boys and young men, and this is going to be material I wouldn't discuss in the way I'm going to discuss it today in the normal edition of the briefing.

This is a privileged conversation, but it's an urgent conversation for the parents of teenage boys and young men and others ministering to them, and who love them.

And it's that love and concern for them that leads to this special edition today.

It's about the problem of extortion.

Now, I think we all know. I've often talked about the fact, quoted Pitterim Serocha,

the great Russian sociologists, that no civilizations had a great civilizational struggle helping girls to become women.

But every civilization has a civilizational struggle to lead boys into healthy manhood.

It's a dangerous road from boyhood to manhood. It's an essential road.

And the issue right now is that there are sexual and financial

predators. In particular, there are extortionists who are going after teenage boys and young men.

And the reason it's called sextortion is because sex is involved. And there's really no way to

describe this in order for us all to understand what we're trying to

protect these boys and young men about.

There's no way to describe it without talking about some things I just wouldn't talk about

on the briefing.

But I've had so many pastors contact me.

I have had parents contact me.

I've had family members contact me.

And even in the state here of Kentucky, we've had this

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